Autocad — Licence Checkout Timed Out

She checked her Wi-Fi. Still connected. But then she noticed: her VPN had auto-updated and disconnected from the office network. Her AutoCAD license was network-based (a common setup for firms using a license server). Without the VPN tunnel to the license server, AutoCAD couldn’t check out a license.

ping license-server.company.com No reply. That meant the server name wasn’t reachable. She swapped the name for the server’s IP address (which she’d saved in a note after a previous crash) — ping worked. licence checkout timed out autocad

Options → Files → Automatic Save File Location She checked her Wi-Fi

She opened LMTOOLS (license manager utility) on her local machine, went to the “Borrow/Return” tab, and saw that her borrowed license had technically expired 10 minutes ago due to a mismatch between her laptop’s clock and the server’s clock (a known daylight saving issue). Her AutoCAD license was network-based (a common setup